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r???. fiflier, which had very fine bright colours ; and the hum- 

 ming-bird, which came frequently and flew about the lliip, 

 while at anchor ; though it can fcarcely live here in the 

 winter, which muft be very fevere. The water fowl were 

 geefe ; a fmall fort of duck, almoft like that mentioned 

 at Kerguelen*s Land ; another fort which none of us 

 knew ; and fome of the black feapyes, with red bills, 

 which we found at Van Diemcn's Land, and New Zea- 

 land. Some of the people who went on fliore, killed a 

 groufe, a fnipe, and fome plover. But though, upon the 

 whole, the water fowl were pretty numerous, efpecially 

 the ducks and geefe, which frequent the fhores, they 

 were fo fliy, that it was fcarcely poffible to get within fliot ; 

 fo that we obtained a very fmall i'upply of them as refrefli- 

 ment. The duck mentioned above, is as large as the com- 

 mon wild-duck, of a deep black colour, with a fliort pointed 

 tail, and red feet. The bill is white, tinged with red toward 

 the point, and has a large black fpot, almoft fquare, near 

 its bafe, on each fide, where it is alfo enlarged or diftended. 

 And on the forehead is a large triangular white fpot ; with 

 one ftill larger on the back part of the neck. The female 

 has much duller colours, and none of the ornaments of the 

 bill, except the two black fpots, which are obfcurc. 



There is likewife a fpecies of diver here, which feems 

 peculiar to the place. It is about the fize of a partridge ; 

 has a fhort, black, comprcfTcd bill ; with the head and up- 

 per part of the neck of a brown black ; the reft of a deep 

 brown, obfcurcly waved with black, except the under-part, 

 which is entirely of a blackifli caft, very minutely varied 

 with white ; the otlicr (perhaps the female) is blacker 

 above, and whiter below. A fmall land bird, of the finch 

 kind, about the fiie of a yellow-hammer, was alfo found ; 



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